Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average non-musical man, symphonies and operas are bad enough, but chamber music is the limit. The musically-minded are apt to consider chamber music the limit too, but in a different sense. Most of it is written for string quartet (two violins, viola, cello), a combination of instruments supposed to be unequaled for balance and flexibility. Most of the great symphonists have written chamber music as well as symphonies, and sometimes connoisseurs have rated their chamber music higher than the rest. When German Historian Oswald Spengler was casting gloomily about for the No. 1 artistic achievement of Western civilization...
...influenced him musically. He hates swing, and so does Hart: "It's old stuff. Benny Goodman only does better what Ted Lewis did years ago." Both Rodgers & Hart hate having swing bands play their stuff-Hart because the subtlety, and even the grammar, of his lyrics is apt to be outraged; Rodgers because his melodies get buried...
Last week, as result of experiments in the little Pittsburgh "pilot mill." J. & L. introduced a new process which it hopes will give the company dominance of the seamless pipe market. Hitherto manganese, the element which gives, steel its pliability, has been apt to cluster instead of spreading evenly through the steel; now J. & L. is feeding manganese into the molten metal in carefully measured and shaped lots. The new process, says Metallurgist Graham, is like using bits of quick-dissolving granulated sugar in coffee rather than lump sugar. The analogy would be more accurate, he adds, if lump sugar...
Will you congratulate your Radio Editor for me on his delightfully apt descriptive phrase in TIME, Aug. 22, concerning News Commentator Boake Carter-''cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace." The lack of such a phrase to fit Mr. Carter's dramatic news-rendering has saddened me for years...
Even ardent Verdians are apt to titter when, in the lush triumphal scene of Aïda, a gaudily festooned white horse clatters on the boards of the stage. But to Anna, the mare which for almost 25 years has appeared at the Metropolitan in Aïda, that scene is serious stuff. In her younger days Anna also acted in Ben Hur and The Sheik. Last week, Anna, 36 years old, had a birthday party fit for a queen...